 In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless—like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant...  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 24by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 368 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder! they but now who seera'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that among the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 362 pages
...crowd Swann'd and were straitcn'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that among the... | |
 | Edward Upham, William Buckley Fox - Buddhism - 1833 - 344 pages
...the devils in Milton are pictured by our great poet — “Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race: Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes.”... | |
 | Edward Upham, William Buckley Fox - Buddhism - 1833 - 338 pages
...the devils in Milton are pictured by our great. poet — “Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race: Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes.”... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels,... | |
 | Mahavasa, Edward Upham - Buddhism - 1833 - 336 pages
...the devils in Milton are pictured by our great poet — " Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race: Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes."... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Banshees - 1834 - 364 pages
...M'CLISE, and the AUTHOR. FAIRY LEGENDS. THE SHEFRO. 1 Fairy Elves Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...over-head the Moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course."— MILTON. 1 h LEGENDS OF THE SHEFROTHE LEGEND OF KNOCKSHEOGOWNA. IN Tipperary... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 526 pages
...rib Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! they, but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race reo Beyond the Indian mount, or Fairy Elves, Whose midnight revels,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 440 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that, among... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given, Hehold a wonder ! They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 and again vi. 707. ' Ac veluti in pratis, ubi ape» ¡estate... | |
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